Tuesday, August 07, 2007 6:27 AM
So while investigating some AJAX/File Uploading goodness, I came accross Pete Freitag's blog. I noticed on his side panel, along with his blog categories, links to what he's reading, etc., he has an item called "Get Your Goodies" and underneath is a picture of some chocolate donuts with some heavenly whipped-cream looking substance on top, and some logo called FusionKit. Immediately I think to myself "Well, this must be some interesting little NY bakery that all the kewl geeks go to for their mid-day sugar fix! I wonder what they're site looks like? Do they do mail order?" My digestive tract was all abuzz...
I clicked the link, and waited with anticipation...only to be devestated when I realize that Fusion Kit is a collection of web 2.0 components for Cold Fusion. Does anyone USE Cold Fusion here in 2007?!
But this got me thinking...if I went for the food-click so quickly, so would other geeks. And what if you were in a bookstore? Seriously, you walk to the computer section and you see three books on AJAX.
One cover has a Zebra or some other animal drawing that looks like something out of a 1756 explorer's notebook.
One has a picture of some rare tool (I'm talking about a hardware tool, not an authors picture you cynical jerks ;) ).
One has a picture of moist, frosted cupcakes oozing some sort of cream-cheese icing over the chocolate frosting peaks.
Now, which one are YOU going to look at first? If you're like any other slightly-larger geek out there, you're going to b-line it for the cupcakes aren't you? Yes you are...don't deny it!
So why don't publishers realize that hey, if they'll get in trouble plastering semi-naked pictures of Morgan Webb on book covers, why not go to the next thing down on the list of must-have's for geek types (ok...they'll get in trouble ripping off screenshots of WoW as well...move on to the THIRD thing on the list) and push the pr0n that is high calorie/high sugar food!? I guarantee that they'll sell more books...GUARANTEE IT!
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